Humble leaders can ascend organizational hierarchies through informal career mentoring and building a network of loyal followers in the workplace, according to a study published in the journal Human ...

Strong leadership rests on a foundation of humility. Have you noticed how leaders with self-assurance bordering on arrogance fill the news? Such portrayals usually imply that resolute certainty is the ...

Ego and pride have caused the downfall of many great civilizations, organizations and leaders throughout history. While ego is necessary to motivate progress and achievement, uncontrolled ego ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humility can help your interconnectedness with others snap into focus. deberarr/iStock via Getty Images Plus The default ...

There's much to learn from these signs. It's true that the greatest love is self-love. But let’s face it, getting to that level of acceptance is far from easy. Yet, cultivating self-love is important ...

When I went to Taiwan in 1956, I was told that I should go the East Coast. It was known for its typhoons and earthquakes, but also beautiful scenery. The most important reason for being sent there was ...

Humility is widely under-rated in most Western cultures, it seems to me. It’s also widely misunderstood — maybe that’s why it’s underrated. Our popular media culture is saturated with themes of ...

Humility, it seems, is not highly regarded in American society. Schools may have programs for building self-esteem, but not humility. We are taught to take pride in our work; to be self-reliant.

Self-esteem is defined as our subjective evaluation of our worth as a person. Needless to say, it is influenced by how we think others perceive us, too. Indeed, in a recent poll of my readers, 20% ...

There is much that I appreciate about Christianity. I like very much the words of the Apostle Paul when he observed in Galatians 5 that “the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness ...

A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...